Archaeology Notes

Event ID 861599

Category Descriptive Accounts

Type Archaeology Notes

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ND16NW 8071 c. 120 688

N58 35.9 W3 30.9

NLO: Thurso [name: ND 115 687]

Thurso Bay [name centred ND 115 699]

Pentland Firth [name centred ND 35 81].

Not to be confused with ND37NW 8017.

(Classified as schooner: no cargo specified, but date of loss cited as 18 December 1892). Clarence C Sinclair: this vessel stranded at the back of Thurso breakwater, likely wreck.

(Location of loss cited as N58 36.0 W3 31.0).

I G Whittaker 1998.

A location at ND c. 120 688 may be tentatively suggested for this stranding. This falls within the E end of Thurso Sands, and to the W of the breakwater at the entrance to Thurso Harbour (ND16NW 57).

Information from RCAHMS (RJCM), 9 May 2007.